Article

2008-03-06 Iraq

Dirt Bag Down? Muqtada Al-Sadr Comatose In Iranian Hospital

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fleretle Sletch8616 2008-03-06 09:11|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Bad Diet. Musta been something he et. <:)

gawd what a load.... of specialists!

Posted by RD">RD 2008-03-06 10:51|| 2008-03-06 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian doctors? Might as well bury him now and save on the embalming fluid.

Posted by Mike 2008-03-06 11:18|| 2008-03-06 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Food poisoning? I wonder who put the poison in the food.

Posted by Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) 2008-03-06 11:31|| 2008-03-06 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd like to think that some Delta Force type just snuck up behind him, tapped him on the shoulder, and whispered, "Boo..."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-03-06 11:43|| 2008-03-06 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Who the hell goes into a coma from food poisoning? Unless it's the sort of food poisoning you get after meeting with dodgy Russian intelligence types with rumored unofficial connections with the presidency.

Which would, I suppose, explain the Russian physicians.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-03-06 11:45|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-06 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 More seriously, I'd be willing to bet that Tater is diabetic. He has the look.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-03-06 11:46|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-06 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Doesn't an advanced case of botulism sometimes lead to / mimic a coma?

Dr. Steve?

Posted by lotp 2008-03-06 11:50|| 2008-03-06 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Breakfast at Khan's.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-03-06 11:59|| 2008-03-06 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 If Iranian doctors don't kill him, russian ones surely will. The only worse possibility that I can imagine would be Gaza doctors.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-03-06 12:01|| 2008-03-06 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 That was posted here a few days ago....

Posted by Pappy 2008-03-06 12:02|| 2008-03-06 12:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Confirm #10. It was early this week. The Rantburg article was linked to the Memri Blog and the Memri blog referenced as source: Al-Siyassa, Kuwait, March 3, 2008. I haven't seen anything else since to confirm this.

Note: Bad link. The rantburg link comes back to the article.

Posted by tipover 2008-03-06 12:38|| 2008-03-06 12:38|| Front Page Top

#12 maybe the crack Persian-Russian medical team will save him but leave him crippled, requiring a colon bag and with a facial tick

Posted by mhw 2008-03-06 12:52|| 2008-03-06 12:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Thought he was in Iran; not Iraq. Bad taters?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-03-06 13:03|| 2008-03-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#14 News from the Polonium Report:

Hair falling out- check
gums bleeding- check
uncontrolled vomiting- check
geiger counter going apeshit- check

"I have it, Dr. Mohammed!"
"What is it, Dr. Radionski?"
"Food poisoning, Big Mac most likely."
"Death to America!"

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-03-06 13:12|| 2008-03-06 13:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry Pappy

Posted by Icerigger 2008-03-06 13:52|| 2008-03-06 13:52|| Front Page Top

#16 "geiger counter going apeshit"

Then it isn't polonium. Polonium won't register on a Geiger counter.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-03-06 14:39|| 2008-03-06 14:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Whatever he ate, I hope Chavez gets some too.

Posted by Iblis 2008-03-06 15:53|| 2008-03-06 15:53|| Front Page Top

#18 Chavez is busy shooting himself in the foot, food poisoning is unneeded, he'll do it to himself.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-03-06 16:33|| 2008-03-06 16:33|| Front Page Top

#19 So where is the Aruba-style reporting on his condition? Inquiring minds wanna know....

Posted by Alaska Paul in Anchor Point, AK 2008-03-06 18:09|| 2008-03-06 18:09|| Front Page Top

#20 I was going to send a card but Walgreens doesn't have the one I had in mind.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-03-06 18:56|| 2008-03-06 18:56|| Front Page Top

#21 I mailed him some fruitcake I'd kept since the fall of the Shah. Imagine MY surprise

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-06 19:52|| 2008-03-06 19:52|| Front Page Top

#22 More seriously, I'd be willing to bet that Tater is diabetic.

Poor guy, I should send him a nice cheesecake.

Posted by DMFD 2008-03-06 19:58|| 2008-03-06 19:58|| Front Page Top

#23 Rugelach.

Posted by lotp 2008-03-06 20:02|| 2008-03-06 20:02|| Front Page Top

#24 I mailed him some fruitcake I'd kept since the fall of the Shah.

Heh, Frank. Did you ship it via DHL or just drop it from low earth orbit?

Posted by SteveS 2008-03-06 20:24|| 2008-03-06 20:24|| Front Page Top

#25 FEDEX - I wanted it to arrive before all the ~~bacteria~~ flavor died

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-06 20:39|| 2008-03-06 20:39|| Front Page Top

#26 Polonium won't register on a Geiger counter.

Sure it will. Geiger counters were invented to detect alphas. Get a drop of urine on a slide, dry it, and test with a Geiger counter. (You can't just hold a Geiger counter up to him, I agree.)

Posted by KBK 2008-03-06 21:56|| 2008-03-06 21:56|| Front Page Top

23:56 JosephMendiola
23:47 gorb
23:46 McZoid
23:45 JosephMendiola
23:43 JosephMendiola
23:42 McZoid
23:38 McZoid
23:34 McZoid
23:32 Redneck Jim
22:54 Redneck Jim
22:30 Abdominal Snowman
22:26 Senior Proconsul Sock Puppet
22:22 Senior Proconsul Sock Puppet
22:20 Senior Proconsul Sock Puppet
22:14 JosephMendiola
22:08 marc
22:08 JosephMendiola
22:07 KBK
22:02 tu3031
21:56 KBK
21:52 Frank G
21:49 Frank G
21:49 JosephMendiola
21:45 Frank G